Snap-fastener.



No. 757,196. 'PATEN'TED APR.12,19(D4.

' T.- R. HYDE, JR- & 1). smons.

SNAP FASTENER. Arruouiox 111.31) In}. 30 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented April 12, 1904.

PATENT OEErcE.

THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, JR, AND ERNEST D. sIMoN's, or WATERBURY,

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY OF VVATERBURY,CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

SNAP-FASTENE R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,196, dated .April'12, 1904:. Application filed January 30, 1904. Serial No. 191,288- (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that we, TrrEormLUs R. HYDE, J12, and ERNns'r D. SIMoNs,citizens of the United States, residing at 'VVaterbury, in the 5 countyof New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Snap-Fasteners, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a 1 covered snap-fastener foruse, in connection with a suitable stud, on gloves and otherwearing-apparel and other objects. The invention Comprises asnap-fastener socket consisting of a combined cap and rivet andasocket-piece arranged upon opposite sides of the glove or other, objectand perma nently united and adapted for engagement with a suitable head01' stud, all as we will pro-v ceed now more particularly to set forthand finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating I the invention, in theseveral figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1is a plan view of the .blank from which the 5 combined cap and rivet isformed. Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating the first operation onthe blank. Fig. 3 is a perspective View illustrating the secondoperation, wherein the edge of the cap is beaded. Fig. 4 is a per- 3spective View illustrating the third operation, in which the arms areconverged. Fig. 5 is a perspective view illustrating the finishedcombined cap and rivet. Fig. 6 is a plan view and cross-section of anon-resilient socketpiece. Fig. 7 shows a resilient stud in eleva tionand beneath it a socket-piece in crosssection, as they appear whenapplied to an object. Figs. 8 and 9 are cross-sections showing theapplication to the combined cap and 4 'rivet of a washer for preventingthe undue deformation of the combined cap and rivet in setting. Fig.- 10is a plan view and crosssection of one form of resilient socket-piece.

Fig. 11 is a plan view and cross-section of another form of resilientsocket-piece. Fig. 12

is an elevation of a solid stud.

The blank 1 is made of relatively softmetal that is to say, metal thatis not necessarily resilient-and with a series of radial arms 2.

This ,blank is then cupped, as shown in Fig. 5 2, so that its arms standat right angles to the central solid portion, which becomes the cap. Theblank thus formed is then provided with ahead 3, as shown in Fig. 3,andthen the various'arms 2 are bent inwardly and convergently, as inFig. 4, and then the outer ends of these arms are brought intocylindrical form, as shown at 4, Fig. 5, to form a hollow rivet. Inorder to conserve the strength of the arms 2, they are convexedtransversely, and this convexing of the arms serves also to preventundue deformation of the device in setting it} The device as thusconstructed provides a closed outer end for the socket, which is adaptedto receive any kind of ornamentation.

The device, Fig. 5, is used in connection with a'socket-pieCe which maybe non-resilient for use in connection with a resilient stud member ormay be resilient to be used in. connection with a non-resilient stud. Anon-resilient socket-piece is shown in Figs. 6 and 7 and comprises aflange 5, from which projects ahollow open-ended head 6, and the opening7 in this head is adapted to receive the cylindrical portion 4 of the.combined cap and rivet, which portion 4 is then upset within the hollowhead 6 by pressure, which serves to break down more or less the conicalformation of the arms 2, as shown in the cross-section, Fig. 7 Thus asocket is formed having an attached closed cap or cover member on oneside of the garment or other object and a socket member proper on theopposite side.

In order to prevent undue deformation of the cap and its arms, a washer8, of paperboard or other material, may be inserted in the blank ofFig.2, as shown in Fig. 8, and held. therein in and by the formation ofthe bead 3, as shown in Fig. 9, and the operation and effect of thiswasher is indicated in the cross-section, Fig. 7.

When the socket-piece is non-resilient, as in Figs. 6 and 7, then a stud9, such as shown in the side elevation of Fig. 7, may be used; but, asalready indicated, a resilient sockettion of these two members.

piece may be used, and in that case a solid stug, such as shown at 10,Fig. 12, may be use Referring to Fig. 10, the socket-piece has a flange11 and an open-ended head 12, and the flange has a number of slits l3,four being shown, which extend through the flange and into the head, or,as shown in Fig. 11, t e socket-piece may havea flange 14 and an opeended tubular head 15,with a number of radial ilitsi 16 intersecting thejoint of the flange and In ail of the various forms of socket-piece theflange is provided with'a series of projections or points 17, whichserve to grip the material to which they are applied, and thus assist inholding" it in place.

It will be observed that the combined cap and rivet has no function as asocket itself; but it is a device primarily-and solely used for securinga separate or individual socketpiece in place, and therefore the saidcom, bined cap and rivet is not made of spring metal and its parts arenot resilient; but, on the contrary, it is made of metal thatmay bereadily upset or clenched after the manner of a rivet or eyelet and isused as such in aflixing the socket-piece, whether resilient ornon-resilient,-to the object to which it is applied.

It isto be further noticed that when the combined cap and rivet and thesocket-piece are united as in the sectional view, Fig. 7, the arms 2 arebent backward and away from the material, soas to form a sort of pocketinto which the open-ended head of the socket-piece is introduced, and itis understood that in the preferred construction the material of theglove or other article is perforated for the recep- What we claim is 1.A snap-fastener, comprising a socket-.

pieceto receive the stud, having a tubular hollow head and abase-flange, and a combined cap and rivet therefor, the latter composedof 45- a cap proper and arms terminating in a cylindrical portion, thearms being bent directly over the head externally and the cylindricalportion upset within the head and clenching the head directly betweenthe arms and cylin-' drical portion to fasten the members upon oppositesides of an article.

2. snap-fastener socket-piece, to'engage cap and rivet havingconnecting-arms, said cap provided with an internalwasher, and the rivetportion adapted to enter the head of the socket-piece and be upsettherein and the arms bent backward against the washer and about the headto clench the head directly between the upset rivet and bentarms.

4. A snap fastener, comprising a socketpiece having ah open ended headpassed through an opening in the goods, and a flange to embrace the backof the goods, a combined cap and rivet having a cap proper with arms toembrace the head externally and acylindrical'portion entering the headof the socketpiece and upset therein, the socket-head being ,engageddirectly'by and clenched between the arms and cylindrical portion, and acomple mental stud adapted to be engaged by the' socket-piece.

5. A snap-fastener, comprising a socketpiece to engage a stud member,having a flange provided with projections to grip the object to which itis applied, and also having an openended hollow head, in combinationwith a combined cap and rivet applied to the opposite side of the goodsfrom the socket-piece and having arms bent backward over the headexternally and a cylindrical portion upset within the head and servingto clench the head directly between the arms and cylindrical portion. I

Intestimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 29th day ofJanuary, A. D. 1904.

THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, JR. ERNEST D. SIMONS.

Witnesses:

J. H. FILLING,

G. F. Honens.

